Developer Johnny Ronan has got caught up in a row over a €35 million office development in Cherrywood in south Dublin. Photograph: Bryan O’BrienThe High Court has granted a development firm permission to serve proceedings at short notice on companies in the Johnny Ronan group in a dispute over the development of a €35 million office building in Cherrywood, south Dublin.
On Friday, Mr Justice Garrett Simons granted short service of the proceedings on the defendants following an ex parte application from Marcus Dowling SC, with Elizabeth Corcoran, instructed by Sharon Scally of Amorys Solicitors, for DLR. The judge made them returnable to next week.Fewer meetings, more memos: the future of asynchronous work
DLR says it entered into an agreement in May 2019 in which DLR would transfer the 12 acres to RGRE 4 in return for which that defendant was required to construct on the remaining 1.3 acres a 145,000 sq ft office building at a cost of more than €35 million. Mr Dalton said RGRE 4 claims to have incurred costs of around €4 million in connection with the agreement but without “so much as hinting” why this might be so.
The Ronan Group website statements in relation to a legal or equitable interest in the site constitute a slander of DLR’s title, he said.